Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Secret

Job ID: 200057914Posted: 2026-10-07Location: United States, Virginia, RestonSalary: USD $85,400 - $168,100 per yearEmployment type: Full-TimeWork site: 3 days / week in-officeRole type: Individual ContributorTravel: Less than 25%Profession: Software EngineeringDiscipline: Site Reliability EngineeringCompany: MicrosoftOverviewDo you have a passion for high scale services and working with some of Microsoft’s most critical customers? We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with the right mix of software development, on-line services experience and passion for quality to envision, design, and deliver Office 365 government cloud service offerings.Office 365 is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud first, devices first strategy as it brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communication and collaboration products like Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams with our cross-platform desktop suites and mobile apps. The Office 365 Enterprise Cloud team works with Microsoft’s largest enterprise and government customers to deliver features that meet their specific needs and enable cloud adoption. As you would expect, our customers have the highest expectations for feature quality, security, reliability, availability, and performance.At Microsoft, we can offer you a solid team, exciting challenges, and a fun place to work. The work environment empowers you to have a positive impact on millions of end users. The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, system design, and end-to-end implementation.The role emphasizes learning and guided contribution while building foundational skills in distributed systems, reliability, observability, automation, and live-site operations.As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will identify and deliver software improvements using your expertise in software development, complexity analysis, and scalable system design. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant, meeting the expectations of our government customers and users. #DPG #DPGHiring Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.ResponsibilitiesYou will develop a foundational understanding of distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, basic dependencies at scale and the code that defines infrastructures.You will develop an understanding of the code, features, and operations of specific products at scale as required to contribute to incremental improvements in product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability and/or performance.You will help test basic changes to optimize code and improve the observability, reliability and operability of a defined range of platforms, system or product components or features with direction from other engineers.You will support ongoing engagements with product engineering teams by participating in code/design reviews, regular meetings, on-call rotations and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles,You will develop an understanding of how to safely and reliably manage changes in production by using existing tools and automation to enable product engineering teams to implement changes across a defined range of components or features, with direction from other engineers.You will use existing tools to troubleshoot problems or flaws affecting the availability, reliability, performance and/or efficiency of components or features with guidance from other engineers.You will embody our culture and values.QualificationsRequired Qualifications:Associate's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related fieldOR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related fieldOR equivalent experience. Other Requirements:Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements as required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance.This position is part of a team providing operational coverage for Microsoft Government cloud environments. Engineers participate in a scheduled shift rotation designed to provide extended business-hour coverage. Shift assignments may include alternate schedules such as four 10-hour workdays or rotating coverage across multiple daily operating windows.Preferred Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administrationOR equivalent experience. 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.Site Reliability Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,400 - $168,100 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $111,100 - $183,700 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.